The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region for March was 5.8 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 6.0 percent in February.
South State Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase 12 South Carolina branch locations and one Georgia branch location from Bank of America.
The celebration was kept somewhat low-key, but Brenau University on Tuesday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $4.4 million athletics park already under construction east of Gainesville.